2017 Asian Youth Athletics Championships

The 2017 Asian Youth Athletics Championships was the second edition of the biennial, continental athletics competition for Asian athletes aged fifteen to seventeen. It was held at the National Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand from 20–23 May. Organised by the Athletics Association of Thailand, a total of forty events were contested with the events divided evenly between the sexes. The event programme mirrored that of the previous IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics, with the exception of a boy's decathlon, rather than the octathlon.[1][2]

2nd Asian Youth Athletics Championships
Dates20–23 May
Host cityBangkok, Thailand
VenueNational Stadium
LevelYouth
Events40
Records set17

China comfortably topped the medal table (as it did in 2015) with sixteen gold medals and 30 medals in total (a quarter of those on offer). Its dominance was slanted towards the girls' events, with Chinese topping 13 of the 20 women's podiums. Chinese Taipei retained its position of next best with six golds in a total of fifteen, closely followed by India on five golds in a 14-medal haul.

Feng Lulu was the outstanding athlete of the meet, taking the girls' 100 metres and 200 metres before claiming the sprint medley relay title with the Chinese team, resulting in three championship records. Her compatriot Pan Youqi was the triple jump winner as well as long jump runner-up. Hong Kong's Chan Pui Kei was the only other athlete to claim three medals, being twice runner-up to Feng individually and taking third in the relay. Guo Pei Yu was a minor medallist in both shot put and discus throw events. Halomoan Edwin Binsar was the only male athlete to reach two individual podiums, being the 400 metres hurdles champion and 110 metres hurdles bronze medallist.

The regional event preceded the 2017 World U18 Championships in Athletics, where several Chinese athletes went on to global success. Liu Zhekai was the boy's javelin throw winner there and on the girls side Niu Chunge and Gong Luying also won the pole vault and long jump titles, respectively. Zhang Yao, third in the racewalk in Bangkok, improved to take the world under-18 gold. Among the world minor medallists were boy's hammer thrower Damneet Singh and Taipei hurdler Lu Hao-hua.[3]

Medal summary

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
(wind: −0.1 m/s)
  Gurinder Vir Singh (IND) 10.77   Muhammad Aiedal Sa Adon (MAS) 10.80   Choi Sun-jae (KOR) 10.81
200 metres
(wind: +0.4 m/s)
  Shin Min-kyu (KOR) 21.48[b]   Sittiphon Donpritee (THA) 21.69   Suriya Taemchan (THA) 21.86
400 metres   Ifan Anugrah Setiawan (INA) 47.47 CR   Muhammad Ilham Suhaimi (MAS) 48.16   Akshay Nain (IND) 48.49
800 metres[a]   Abishek Mathew (IND) 1:54.99 CR   Harsha Dissanayaka Mudiyansela (SRI) 1:54.99   Qi Zhan (CHN) 1:55.25
1500 metres   Wei Yan (CHN) 3:50.65   Kaishin Hattori (JPN) 3:55.04   Park Jong-hak (KOR) 3:58.74
3000 metres   Sharif Elatawneh (JOR) 8:35.49   Noor Aldeen Al-Humaidha (YEM) 8:42.88   Amir Zamanpour (IRI) 8:49.34
110 metres hurdles   Lu Hao-hua (TPE) 13.45[c]   Ning Xiaohan (CHN) 13.66   Halomoan Edwin Binsar (INA) 13.73
400 metres hurdles   Halomoan Edwin Binsar (INA) 51.96 CR   Huang Ting-hsuan (TPE) 52.49   Navodya Sankalpa Sobana Handigei (SRI) 53.86
2000 metres steeplechase   Hasan Saad Al-Asdi (IRQ) 5:58.34   Nguyễn Trung Cường (VIE) 6:01.16   Mohammed Al-Suleimani (OMN) 6:13.33
Medley relay   India (IND)
Palender Kumar
Gurindervir Singh
Manish
Akshay Nain
1:55.62   Chinese Taipei (TPE)
Yue Liu Hao-cyuan
Lu Hao-hua
Ye Cing-hua
Huang Ting-hsuan
1:55.71   Hong Kong (HKG)
Tse Yee Hn Rico
Ma Chi Fai
Chan Ching Fung
Wong Shek On Zion
1:56.11
10,000 m walk   Sanjay Kumar (IND) 45:30.39   Masaru Suzuki (JPN) 45:47.41   Yao Zhang (CHN) 46:12.58
High jump   Cao Võ Ngọc Long (VIE) 2.10 m   Sun Qihao (CHN) 2.03 m   Hussain Nasser Al-Shawakir (KSA) 2.00 m
Pole vault   Kasinpob Chomchanad (THA) 5.00 m CR   Yang Lucheng (CHN) 4.85 m   Idan Fauzan Richsan (INA) 4.80 m
Long jump   Lee Seung-jun (KOR) 7.49 m =CR   Wen Hua-yu (TPE) 7.38 m   Koki Wada (JPN) 7.30 m
Triple jump   Muhammad Nazri Mustafa (MAS) 15.05 m   Huang Hao-wen (TPE) 14.78 m   Yu Jianming (CHN) 14.71 m
Shot put   Yang Po-en (TPE) 19.40 m   Mohit (IND) 18.82 m   Kanta Matsuda (JPN) 18.59 m
Discus throw   Abhay Gupta (IND) 56.47 m CR   Sahil Silwal (IND) 54.58 m   Ngu Ing Bau (MAS) 52.48 m
Hammer throw   Liu Yuxuan (CHN) 71.16 m   Damneet Singh (IND) 70.29 m   Nitesh Poonia (IND) 69.76 m
Javelin throw   Liu Zhekai (CHN) 77.25 m   Rohit Yadav (IND) 74.30 m   Avinash Yadav (IND) 70.09 m
Decathlon   Liu Tsu-yuan (TPE) 5982 pts   Mohit (IND) 5976 pts   Reza Kefayati (IRI) 5904 pts
  • a Mathew was declared the winner in a photo finish, being given a time of 1:54.991, two thousandths ahead of Mudiyansela
  • b Shin Mink-yu of Korea set a championship record of 21.45 seconds in the preliminary rounds.
  • c Hao Hua Lu of Chinese Taipei set a championship record of 13.40 seconds in the preliminary rounds.

Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
(wind: +0.4 m/s)
  Feng Lulu (CHN) 11.77 CR   Chan Pui Kei (HKG) 11.91   Gong Luying (CHN) 12.07
200 metres
(wind: +0.5 m/s)
  Feng Lulu (CHN) 24.06 CR   Chan Pui Kei (HKG) 24.57   Abigeiru Fuka Ido (JPN) 24.60
400 metres   Mo Jaidie (CHN) 55.19   Wang Jou-hsuan (TPE) 55.81   Maryam Mohebbi (IRI) 55.94
800 metres   Louris Danoun (SYR) 2:14.15 CR   Zhu Haihong (CHN) 2:14.23   Kamila Radjabova (UZB) 2:15.21
1500 metres   Li Chunhui (CHN) 4:40.09   Bahareh Jahantigh (IRI) 4:51.26   Kittikarn Suharitdumrong (THA) 4:52.75
3000 metres   Gyong Choe-il (PRK) 10:00.96   Đoàn Thu Hằng (VIE) 10:02.18   Seema (IND) 10:05.27
100 metres hurdles   Lin Ting-wei (TPE) 14.08   Sayuri Nagasaki (JPN) 14.23   Shing Choyan (HKG) 14.29
400 metres hurdles   Liang Yina (CHN) 59.71 CR   Han Le Thi Hong (VIE) 1:00.66   Wu Pei-shan (TPE) 1:00.87
2000 metres steeplechase   Suk Kim-hyang (PRK) 7:02.77   Ngô Thị Khánh Ny (VIE) 7:04.25   Hae Kim-mi (PRK) 7:10.82
Medley relay   China (CHN)
Feng Lulu
Tao Yanan
Liang Yina
Mo Jiadie
2:09.63 CR   Thailand (THA)
Jirawan Chutrakun
Preechaporn Pluempan
Tawanchat Chanbu
Kitiya Nguphimai
2:15.65   Hong Kong (HKG)
Hui Man Natalie
Wong Tsz Shan
Chan Pui Kei
Fung Cheuk Lam
2:16.17
5000 m walk   Wu Wei-ciao (TPE) 25:41.36   Zhou Xiaomin (CHN) 26:04.42   Gao Wenjing (CHN) 26:53.61
High jump   Marya Mabdulhameed Abdulelah (IRQ) 1.73 m   Nguyễn Lan Anh (VIE) 1.69 m   Olga Shlentova (UZB) 1.69 m
Pole vault   Niu Chunge (CHN) 4.15 m CR   Zhang Qianru (CHN)
  Lin Ying-tung (TPE)
3.70 m Not awarded
Long jump   Gong Luying (CHN) 6.11 m CR   Pan Youqi (CHN) 5.99 m   Yuki Fujiyama (JPN) 5.82 m
Triple jump   Pan Youqi (CHN) 12.73 m   Laura Akhmetova (KAZ) 12.41 m   Karunia Nur Gem Ilang (INA) 11.98 m
Shot put   Yu Tianxiao (CHN) 17.51 m CR   Shi Hongmei (CHN) 17.50 m   Guo Pei-yu (TPE) 15.66 m
Discus throw   Liu Quantong (CHN) 47.78 m CR   Guo Pei-yu (TPE) 45.74 m   Park Sun-jin (KOR) 44.29
Hammer throw   Ji Li (CHN) 67.81 m CR   Grace Wong Xiu Mei (MAS) 59.00 m   Reihaneh Arani (IRI) 55.41 m
Javelin throw   Liao Yu (CHN) 56.29 m   Wang Ying (CHN) 55.07 m   Park A-yeong (KOR) 49.35 m
Heptathlon   Hsiang Chia-li (TPE) 4985 pts CR   Roksana Khudoyarova (UZB) 4653 pts   Sarifa Rzakuliyeva (KAZ) 4501 pts

Medal table

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Key
  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  China169530
2  Chinese Taipei67215
3  India55414
4  South Korea2046
5  Indonesia2035
6  North Korea2013
7  Iraq2002
8  Vietnam1506
9  Malaysia1315
10  Thailand*1225
11  Jordan1001
  Syria1001
13  Japan0347
14  Hong Kong0235
15  Iran0145
16  Uzbekistan0123
17  Kazakhstan0112
  Sri Lanka0112
19  Yemen0101
20  Oman0011
  Saudi Arabia0011
Totals (21 entries)404139120

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Mulkeen, Jon (2017-05-23). Chinese athletes dominate Asian Youth Championships . IAAF. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
  2. ^ 2nd Asian Youth Athletics Championships 2017 Main Page Archived 2017-05-22 at the Wayback Machine. Athletics Asia. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
  3. ^ 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships Results. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
Results
Preceded by
2015
Doha, Qatar
2nd Asian Youth Athletics Championships
2017
Bangkok, Thailand
Succeeded by
2019
Hong Kong